Mirror - Vol. 32, No. 02 - September 14, 2006

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Pellegrino kicks kegs on campus
BY ANDREW CHAPIN
Apparently there is more
to the Fairfield University
2006-2007 Student Handbook
than just a new color scheme.
Most notably, kegs have
been banned from Fairfield's
campus, and students are not
happy about it.
Matt Castillo '07 couldn't
believe it when he heard of the
change.
"I think it's b.s. because
no one gets too out of hand,"
said Castillo, arguing that kegs
are not the real issue. Rather,
the administration should be
concerned with students who
do not know their alcohol
limits.
Castillo said he thinks
the university "looked at rare
incidents where public safety
had to act" when deciding to
enact the new policy.
He also said he sympa-thizes
with those who are 21
years old, saying that their
options are now limited on
campus to the Levee and how-ever
many beers they can fit in
their fridges.
However, Dean of Stu-dents
Tom Pellegrino believes
"the policy is, on balance, the
right approach for the univer-sity
community to take."
Pellegrino emphasized
that the concern lies with
"high risk behavior."
In a letter dated Aug. 3,
2006 to undergraduate stu-dents
and parents, he wrote,
"Our data from the past aca-demic
year show increases in
the number of alcohol-related
disciplinary cases, as well
as health center and hospital
visits resulting from intoxica-tion."
Also highlighted in this
letter is the distinction that
now exists between "high
risk behavior" and "low risk
behavior." Pellegrino reiter-ated
that the Dean's office has
"always maintained discretion
when entering sanctions."
This, he said, allows them
to "best address particular
circumstances at hand in a
given case.
Lauren Callahan '08 ques-tioned
the rationale behind the
policy change.
"Buying 20 cases of beer
instead of a couple of kegs
probably isn't going to reduce
high risk behavior," she said.
The fines for alcohol vio-lations
have changed as well.
According to the 2005-2006
Fairfield University Student
Handbook, a first time of-fender
who is caught drink-
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The Mirror faced admin-istration
censorship for the
first time in its 31-year his-tory
when hundreds of copies
of the Orientation Issue were
pulled off the stands during the
second freshman orientation
in June.
Deirdre Eller, the former
director of new student pro-grams,
asked members of the
Orientation Board to remove
the issues of The Mirror from
the stands, according to Matt
Dinnan, the associate dean of
student activities.
Dinnan said Eller was
responsible for the Orienta-tion
program and must have
deemed some of the material
inappropriate for her to take
that action.
The content in question
appeared in Andrew Chapin's
('09) column and the "He said/
She said" section of the issue,
according to Vice President of
Student Affairs Mark Reed.
"What I may find ob-jectionable,
however, is not
necessarily a sufficient reason
to authorize the pulling of an
issue of the student newspa-per,"
said Reed, who is the
only administrator who can
authorize the pulling of an
issue of The Mirror.
"While I would not rule
out the possibility of pulling
an issue, the circumstances
would have to be rather severe
to cause me to make such a
decision," said Reed.
Reed said the student
newspaper is granted full
control of its content.
However, Dinnan said
the "information in the issue
was not discussed with Ms.
Eller prior to the orientation
session."
"My recollection is that
[the orientation issue] wasn't
a regular publication, but a
special issue which is worked
on collaboratively between the
editorial board of The Mirror
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The independent student newspaper
of Fairfield University
Lieberman to
speak on campus
Friday
BY BEN DOODY
Rarely is the state of Connecticut cast
into the national spotlight as it has been this
summer. And rarely is Fairfield cast into that
spotlight like it will be on Friday morning.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the long-time
Democratic senator who is now running for
re-election as an independent, is planning on
appearing at Fairfield to make what his cam-paign
called "a major policy announcement
concerning national security" Friday morning
between 10 and 11 a.m.
Lieberman, the
Democratic Party's
nominee for vice presi-dent
in 2000, is fight-ing
for his political life
after losing the Aug.
8 Democratic Primary
to political novice and
Greenwhich business-man
Ned Lamont.
The senate race
is arguably the most
closely watched politi-cal
battle being fought
in the country, and is
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thought by many to be a plebiscite on the war
in Iraq and a battle for the heart and soul of
the Democratic Party.
Donald Greenberg, chairman of the
Fairfield politics department and a supporter
of Lamont, said the notion of Lieberman giv-ing
an address about policy was "ridiculous"
given the fact that as a senator, Lieberman
has no authority to unilaterally implement
any policies.
"To say it's not a campaign stop in the
middle of the campaign is ridiculous," Green-berg
said. "What does he mean by a major
policy announcement? He's not in charge of
making policy. He's not the president."
The event is being sponsored by the Ham
Channel and WVOF. An invitation to sponsor
the event was also extended to The Mirror,
but as of press time, a decision had not been
made as to whether or not The Mirror would
be officially involved.
"Any senator from Connecticut is wel-come
on campus," said Academic Vice
President Orin Grossman. "He's been a good
friend to Fairfield and we're happy to have
him here."
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